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I'll hit the big 50 this year in October...However, my first double was purchased in my middle 20's. Exactly the same,...........
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Sidelock
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63, bought my first double when I was 46. I to am kind of late to the party. That first double was a Bernadelli 20ga. Sold it to buy a L.C.Smith 20 that weighed more and I could shoot better.
Regards Gordon
Our Dogs make our lives better
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Sidelock
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Got first double LC Smith 16ga in 1958 from my grand dad for my 11th birthday. Still shoot the gun which was made in 1912.
Also means of am much younger than Stallones
Benny Kirkham
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I'm 85 - What do I win? Got my first Nitro Special at age 12. Been shooting pretty much ML & black powder for the past 30 years or so.
Bill
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My drivers license says I'll be 64 in April, and as usual they got it wrong. I'll be 18 again just one more time, how do you blend that into your average? My experience with a sxs goes back 42 years I liked that old Stevens the first time I picked it up and have owned a sxs ever since. Today damascus is king in my gun safe and if it doesn't stink when you shoot it I don't want it. Mike
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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I just tallied and averaged all respondents so far, and the average of all respondents that actually told their age, is 56.5 years. This includes me, at 58. I got my first double, which was also my first real hunting gun (other than air rifles), at age 8. It was a J. C. Higgins .410 double with Tenite "wood".
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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45 y/o. Got my first double at age 11, a Stevens 311. Next was a Valmet O/U age 16. Been with doubles the whole time. Sure I dally with a pump once in a while, but never an auto. The 311 was the last gun I sold and boy do I regret it.
Rob.
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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50 in two weeks, best things in life come SXS. As a pair anyway! Started out with a 20ga hunter special and thought I was trading up to a Lefever ( nitro special) I would like them both back!! Maybe a good post would Guns we wish we never sold! I know I have more than a few!
BEWARE OF DOGMA
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Sidelock
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66 candles. Still shooting my Dad's Remmy M31 matt rib 12 Ga. as my duck gun, and my great uncle's Sterlingworth on wild pheasants. (M21 20 Ga on preserve colored chix)
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Wow I'm a puppy!! I am a whopping 26. I have been shooting and buying doubles since dad handed me a riverside 20 ga. at age 11. I have some 31's (most underrated gun ever, for a pump) some A-5's but mostly doubles, I guess I don't know how many now but my wife thinks it's too many. Started working English setters with dad at age 7, shooting birds for dogs in the summer at age 11. Shot my first rooster at 12. I still have the ol' riverside 20 but saw many years of abuse so I have since retired it, as the ribs are loose and the nails that are holding the stock together are loose. It hangs quietly in my basement now. I don't think I'll ever lose the passion for upland bird hunting, doubles, and fine English setters. I will be starting my 100 something puppy this summer and while the dogs get sold quite often the guns usually stay.
Double guns and English Setters
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